LouHomey From my favorite movies..

Neive Bellamy Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.

Derry Herrera Not sure how, but this is easily one of the best movies all summer. Multiple levels of funny, never takes itself seriously, super colorful, and creative.

Allissa .Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.

dbdumonteil This is the second effort by Serge Pénard ;the first one was hopeless:his " Tendrement Vache" told a cock-and-bull story:Henri Duchemin has just lost his good wife,Mary,and he is inconsolable ;after watching a TV broadcast about reincarnation,he does believe that the dead woman is reincarnated as a cow...You read well!"Le Chêne D'Allouville " (alternate title : "Ils Sont Fous Ces Normands" ,a nod to Asterix )gets off to a most auspicious start: the 1300-year-old oak tree ,the village's pride ,is in jeopardy: its root would have to be cut ,to widen the road ,because of the wheel- and- deal of an unscrupulous greedy (and gay) Député and a mayor at his beck and call ,because he has promised him the Legion D'Honneur.The treatment is awful,the script is appalling and the actors ham it up shamelessly ;the mayor/vicar rivalry may remind you of a poor man's Don Camillo and Peppone (Duvivier's fifties comedy);all the characters from the politically correct daughter to the journalist are cardboard;the love story is abysmal (and enhanced ,so to speak, by a syrupy score),and an unfriendly look at gays only makes the matter worse.The inhabitants/riot police fights are repetitive and sound like a very bad spoof on those movies-with-demonstration which thrived in the wake of the events of May 68.This venerable tree did deserve better than this coarse slapstick.